1. Physically weak
   "an invalid's frail body"
    
2. Easily broken, damaged or destroyed
   "a frail craft";
   - delicate, fragile
    
3. Wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings
   "frail humanity";
   - fallible, imperfect, weak

1. A basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)
   "The merchant displayed a frail of dried figs at the market"
    
2. The weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs; between 50 and 75 pounds
   "The merchant ordered two frails of dried figs"

Derived forms: frails, frailer, frailest

See also: breakable, debile [archaic], decrepit, delicate, feeble, human, infirm, light-boned, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly

Type of: basket, handbasket, weight, weight unit

Antonym: robust

Encyclopedia: Frail, Stephen